116 PRECIOUS METALS IN THE WEST OF EKGLAKD. 



In 1871 the Queen Mine sold 5 tons of silver ore for 

 £421 12s. 8d. 



In 1877-9 nearl}' 242 tons of silver ore were raised and sold 

 from Wheal Newton which realized £6,888 os. 7d., and in 

 J 880-2 the neighbouring' mine of Wheal Fortune (Harrow- 

 harrow) sold 3J tons for £2,610 Os. 6d. All these mines are in 

 East Cornwall near Callington and Calstock. 



In 1877-81 Crinnis and Carlyon sold 30 tons for £977 10s. 5d. 



Silver in small quantities has also been raised and sold from 

 Botallack, Levant, Wheal Providence, East Eosewarne, North 

 Jane, Great Eetallack, Eowey Consols, the Prince of Wales and 

 many other mines in Cornwall and Devon. 



During the year, 1903, over two thousand pounds worth 

 of silver ore has been raised from shallow workings in Perran- 

 uthnoe, of which some specimens are reported to have assayed 

 45 per cent, silver. 



In the following table I have set down all the recorded 

 silver ore sales that have come under my notice — from the 

 Mineral Statistics or elsewhere.'" A few of the figures have 

 been interpolated by calculation or estimation. Adding sundry 

 small parcels unrecorded, particularly before the year 1853 and 

 allowing for the very heavy smelting deductions of former times, 

 allowing, too, for silver specimens sold by the miners, it is 

 probable that 2,000 tons of true silver ores have been raised 

 during the century from the West of England mines of a sale 

 value of £80,000, and containing not less than half a million 

 ounces of silver. 



44. Mr. Robert Hunt began his mineral Statistics of silver ore in the year 1S53. 



